How to Use air right in a Sentence

air right

noun
  • This cools the air right near the surface.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There’s just something in the air right now.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • There seems to be something in the air right now.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 8 June 2026
  • There’s a smell in the air right now — solder, espresso and defiance.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The cool Pacific air right outside the windows then came right on through.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The Pitt is one of the most popular and lauded television shows on air right now.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Dry sweeping and dusting launch particles back into the air right at a child’s breathing height.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
  • Should the next owner feel compelled to keep evolving and growing the house, there are air rights for future expansion.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In the case of freezing rain, however, there is just a very shallow or thin layer of subfreezing air right at the surface.
    — Grant Gilmore, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • That means the Dolphins will attack effectively and frequently through the air right?
    — Miami Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Whether Bobrovsky would still be here right now was up in the air right up until the NHL’s trade deadline last Friday.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Bocca Aperta jacked up into the air right in the pope’s quarters—as testified to, again, by multiple eyewitnesses.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Bocca Aperta jacked up into the air right in the pope’s quarters—as testified to, again, by multiple eyewitnesses.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • That project rests on decades of layered planning, established air rights and a transit hub designed to absorb extraordinary density.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Showrunner Ryan Condal had previously revealed that the series would end after four seasons, but that was not mentioned in the release and is up in the air right now.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
  • With vertical development and air rights, the total value of projects supported by this land could easily exceed $2 billion to $3 billion.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
  • None of its competitors are on the air right now, and some — like returning players The Bear and Nobody Wants This — haven’t shown new episodes since 2025.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • The goal is to reopen Costanza told KDKA Monday night that a lot of things are up in the air right now concerning a potential reopening of the sausage shop.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic opposes the Colton's plan to extend a roof overhang beyond the private property line into the city's air rights above a sidewalk.
    — Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • These included the use of adjacent buildings, and the raising funds for repairs and improvements for the sale of air rights — though adding more floors would require a setback from the façade to preserve its historic character, Preservation Chicago said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the 1980s, the last owner joined with a neighbor on the other side of the ramp to put together a deal to sell the building and its four floors of air rights to a developer who could add several floors to each building and a skybridge over the ramp to connect them.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Mary — played by Deirdre O’Connell, who has been in a million things, most recently The Penguin and Eddington — is too shrewd to just agree to sell the air rights for whatever price best suits Jimmy & Co.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026

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